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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 27</span><span class="fp-text">LE CHIEN, LE TRÉSOR ET LE VAUTOUR</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XXVII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">CANIS ET THESAURUS ET VULTURIUS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable peut convenir aux avares et à ceux qui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sortis de très-bas, veulent passer pour riches.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Haec res avaris esse conveniens potest</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et qui humiles nati dici locupletes student.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">En déterrant des ossements humains, un Chien</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">trouva un trésor&nbsp;: comme il avait outragé les dieux Mânes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la passion des richesses s'empara soudainement de lui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour le punir de son sacrilège envers la religion des tombeaux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tout occupé à garder son or, il oublia de manger,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et mourut de faim. On dit qu'un Vautour, en déchirant</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">son cadavre, prononça ces paroles&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Tu as mérité ton sort,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour avoir convoité tout à coup des richesses royales,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">misérable, né dans un carrefour et élevé sur le fumier&nbsp;!&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Humana effodiens ossa thesaurum canis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">invenit, et <span class="fp-correction" title="violat  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">violaverat</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="violaverat  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">violat</span></span> quia Manes deos</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">injecta est illi divitiarum cupiditas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">poenas ut <span class="fp-correction" title="sancte  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">sanctae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sanctae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sancte</span></span> religioni penderet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Itaque aurum dum custodit, oblitus cibi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fame est consumtus ; quem <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n80/mode/1up">p.17</a>]</span> stans vulturius super</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fertur locutus&nbsp;: «&nbsp;O canis, merito jaces,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui concupisti subito regales opes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">trivio conceptus et educatus stercore.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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